There is a lot to dislike about the 1,600-page, $1 trillion spending package up for a vote in Congress today, but one of its most obviously counterproductive provisions may be the new pathway for states to access a new stash of federal funding if they implement criteria for abstinence-only sex ed (a phrase that should… »12/11/14 2:30pm 12/11/14 2:30pm

This Saturday, the Las Vegas Metro Police helped sponsor a "Choose Purity" event targeted at young girls. Its message was pretty simple: if you have sexual intercourse before signing some legal documents binding you to another human, you risk getting sucked into the dark world of drugs, gangs and sex trafficking. Oh,… »5/05/14 3:20pm 5/05/14 3:20pm

Yesterday, Richardson High School — which is a non-denominational public school outside of Dallas — brought in a raving misogynistic Christian dating coach to give a lecture to its students. His basic thesis: God says that women should shut up if they want boyfriends. »11/14/13 2:30pm 11/14/13 2:30pm

A Michigan school district won't let two pregnant students show their baby bumps in the high school yearbook because it would promote teen pregnancy and thereby contradict the state's abstinence-only sex ed approach. We can't make this shit up. »5/16/13 6:20pm 5/16/13 6:20pm

Katelyn Campbell, the high school student who notified the media about Pam Stenzel's insane abstinence-only presentation last week, is apparently being threatened by her principal. She says that George Aulenbacher, the principal at George Washington High School in West Virginia, said he'd call Wellesley College —… »4/18/13 9:33am 4/18/13 9:33am

Apparently being known for Steubenville isn't enough for Ohio — they're now trying to corner the market on not educating their teens about sex. Yesterday, the Ohio House Finance Committee's Republican members voted to adopt a state budget amendment that mandates an abstinence-only approach to sexual education. Oh,… »4/17/13 1:50pm 4/17/13 1:50pm

Remember Pam from this morning? Pam Stenzel? The public high school speaker who thinks that your mom hates you if you take birth control? We now have an 51-minute long long audio recording of her batshit George Washington High School speech (the video is titled "GWHS Pam Stenzel. Latter 50/60 minutes," which is… »4/12/13 6:00pm 4/12/13 6:00pm

Meet Pam Stenzel. Pam Stenzel is a highly-paid* lecturer who speaks about the virtues of abstinence. Stenzel spoke on Monday at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV and created quite a stir when she allegedly made comments like, "If you take birth control, your mother probably hates you," and "I could look… »4/12/13 11:40am 4/12/13 11:40am

Evette Holyfield, the daughter of boxing champ/spokesperson for the The Real Deal Grill Evander Holyfield, is saving herself for marriage because, she says, religion. The interview is interesting, filled with questions that she answers genuinely, and I'm pretty sure I want to be her clingy new bff. However, I do have… »11/26/12 11:30pm 11/26/12 11:30pm

Somewhere in America, grown adults are getting paid real legal currency to teach teenagers how to not have sex. And thanks to a deal the Obama administration was begrudgingly forced to cut with conservative legislators, these hoboes on the abstinence-only education gravy train will be able to continue riding the rails… »10/11/12 5:25pm 10/11/12 5:25pm

A bunch of rational people are suing the Clovis Unified School District in California for allegedly violating state law by telling kids they won't get pregnant if they're not sleep-deprived, whoreish loners. »8/22/12 10:40am 8/22/12 10:40am

Despite an encouraging decline in teen pregnancy, the U.S. still lags woefully far behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to teenagers not really knowing how their reproductive organs work and consequently using contraception incorrectly (or not at all). »8/19/12 8:10pm 8/19/12 8:10pm

If premarital sex made the baby Jesus cry, he'd be a pretty hoarse, colic-y baby. Because evangelical teens, despite the fact that they're told day in and day out that bumping uglies before God says it's okay is wrong (like going to hell wrong) are having all kinds of secret sex with each other. And because of their… »7/13/12 6:00pm 7/13/12 6:00pm

What happens when a group of pro-abstinence college kids who are not untalented at making graphics but could use some advice when it comes to slogans (um, we all know JT brought sexy back in 2006) reject their parents' world of "sky-high rates of divorce, abortion, and STDs; a world bored with sex and bored with… »7/03/12 5:20pm 7/03/12 5:20pm